Kaidan is definitely a character who made a serious impact on my Mass Effect playthrughs - I'm one of few people who actually played both games without any prior information about the game, I picked up the first part on accident and out of complete boredom, and the second one cough me by surprise - I did no expect it so soon after the first one (at last soon for me since I picked up PC copy of the first part several month after it was released). So I had a rather "unspoiled" reaction to the characters.
I remember seeing Kaidan at the very beginning of Mass Effect 1 and being in a silly gleeful mood that evening thinking "I want some of that!"... Imagine my surprise when I actually got what I wanted! Through my long gaming history I got so used to the fact that there is either no romances or there are some, but with the characters I don't really care for.that if was a kind of a shock to get my wish this time around

In fact I eventually grew so attached to Kaidan that I don't have a single save where Ash got to survive or Liara was a LI - I simply could not pass up on Kaidan,... Pathologically.

In the beginning of Mass Effect 2 Kaidan was on my mind since the start of the game, I wanted to know what happened to him, if he is alright, I was prepared for the fact that he moved on to some degree, and probably woun't be ready to throw away everything and run after Shep to chase collectors across the galaxy (even thou I kind of hoped he would), but I expected an motional reunion with a promise of something more. In short I expected Kaidan to love Shep and support her, even if he can't go with her right now. And all during the fight with collectors I worried if he is safe, and if they took him...
Needless to say that when he gave his Horizon speech I was disappointed, shocked and later livid. In fact I never was so angry at a fictional character in my live - I'm calmer than that about real live boyfriends

Which is a sign that the character is well written - he got me emotionally and made me feel, the only problem is I still kind of want to throw him out of the nearest airlock, and gleefully cheat on him every time just to see the damned photo turned over.
What I hope for in Mass Effect 3 is a small miracle - I want his character to be written in such a way that I would want to forgive him, that it would be a dilemma whither I want to stay with the current LI or go back to Kaidan, and for that to happen one thing is certain - it's Kaidan who needs to want me back, and be prepared to mend the bridges, because I burned them quite throughly.
I do have faith in Bioware - if anyone can make me want to forgive and forget they would do it, but I believe that for that to happen they do have to realize just how upset some of the players who romanced him are. And that letter thing only got me madder to say the truth... The fact that he essentially replaced Shep in alliance ranks, or at last tried to adds to that.
If being "unfaithful" is punished, it will only make me want to shoot him on sight more - I certainly not going to apologize for moving on after he essentially left me. In fact to even agree to work with him there wold have to be some damn good reasons - right now neither I nor my Sheps would want to see him even close to Normandy.
Here is to hoping that Bioware will manage to pull it of
Modifié par Sshodan, 11 juillet 2011 - 04:07 .